By Ebere Aham & Lucky Nwanekwu

LAGOS—Ten individuals have been arrested in reference to the disaster that erupted Wednesday night time between business motorcyclists and policemen  in Ajao space of Lagos.

Unconfirmed report had it that two policemen have been killed by rampaging hoodlums who hijacked the state of affairs. But the Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, said that the command didn’t lose any of its males.

A Police Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, stationed at Canoe bridge linking Ajao with Ejigbo was additionally allegedly  burnt by the business motorcyclists, stated to be protesting seizure of their bikes by officers of  Lagos State Task Force.

Report had it that officers of the duty pressure have been out to implement the restriction of economic  motorcyclists, popularly generally known as okada, across the axis.

However, on reaching Ilamose Estate at Oke-Afa, some okada operators reportedly  made  entry into  Ajao Estate troublesome.

In the method, the officers have been stated to have impounded a number of the motorbikes. However, some motorcyclists round Canoe who sighted them, concluded they have been coming for them as properly, an assumption that  sparked off a violent protest yesterday.

When Vanguard arrived the scene, shattered  windscreens littered all over the place, in addition to charred stays of the police car.

Some heady motorcyclists who resumed work yesterday morning, had their motorbikes seized by members of the duty drive.  Some armed policemen and troopers have been sighted on the scene, whereas others have been on vehicular patrol.

An eye witness who merely gave his identify as Jola, described  Wednesday night time’s incident as theatre of was conflict.

Chairman of tricycle operators in Ajao Estate, Mr  Ambimbola, stated: ‘’This is just not the primary time we’re experiencing such an incident. Such has occurred earlier than.

“But yesterday’s incident was  a really dangerous prevalence . We  consider that these individuals (Fulani males) are struggling to feed themselves however this doesn’t give them the audacity to struggle with  policemen and even burn their car.”

Police assault Vanguard’s reporter

Immediately after the interview, whereas certainly one of Vanguard’s reporters, Lucky Nwanekwu, was taking photographs of the scene, a policeman shoved him apart and battered him, asking why he was  taking photographs of the scene. All entreaties on the policeman who claimed to be from Area ‘A‘ Mushin Command, failed as two of his colleagues joined in  beating the reporter.

Thereafter,  they seized his cell phone and whisked him away of their van, to Mushin. They  tried to throw him contained in the cell, boasting that no one might cease the transfer. It, nevertheless, took the intervention of a senior police officer who reprimanded them, for Nwanekwu who had blood shot eye and marks of violence on his chest and ribs, to be launched.

At time of scripting this report, he was being handled at Vanguard’s clinic.

However,  an indignant CP Owoseni, apologised on the excesses of his males , assuring that the command would look into the matter, with a view to discovering out the circumstances that surrounded the assault on the reporter.

 

 

 

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